On 9 November 2011, FRA and Yad Vashem launched a new educational initiative: the Toolkit (beta) on the Holocaust and Human Rights Education in the EU. Three years ago, on 9 November 2008, marking 70 years since the Kristallnacht Pogrom, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and Yad Vashem initiated an educational project to create an online pedagogical tool - a Toolkit on the Holocaust and Human Rights Education.

Together with the representations from the European Commission and the European Parliament in Austria, the FRA hosted an infostand at the Heldenplatz on the occasion of Austria's national holiday.

On 25 October the FRA launched the second publication of the project on the ‘Fundamental rights of persons with intellectual disabilities and persons with mental health problems'. The latest FRA report on the rights of people with mental health problems finds that in most EU Member States they are protected by existing non-discrimination laws and that they benefit from the duty to provide "reasonable accommodation" at work: this means that employers should adapt, for example, work schedules or practices to match the needs of an employee with a mental health problem.

Today job opportunities for people with mental health problems are improving thanks to the progress made in the European Union and its Members States," said FRA Director, Morten Kjaerum. "However, there is still much to do to ensure that their rights are fulfilled in a way that allows them to fully participate in an all-inclusive society."

The FRA and the European Union Committee of the Regions (CoR) held their 3rd Annual Dialogue on Multi-level Protection and Promotion of Fundamental Rights. This year's event was called 'Implementing fundamental rights of irregular migrants - toward multi-level governance'

On 18 October the FRA pledged its support to work together with other EU Agencies to combat human trafficking, conservatively estimated to be around 2.5 million people globally, during the EU's fifth Anti-Trafficking day conference in Warsaw. Directors of seven EU agencies, including the FRA, committed to coordinate efforts in partnership with EU Member States, EU institutions and other partners, including civil society organisations, to create a Europe-wide approach to the eradication of human trafficking.

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New FRA report on access to health care for irregular migrants (10 October 2011)